Comrades, the tsarist general Wrangel is building
up his offensive against the Ukraine and Russia. With backing from
the French capitalists, he is pushing forward, threatening the
Donets Basin and Ekaterinoslav. The danger is grave. Once again
the landowners are trying to reestablish their power, get their
estates back, and re-enslave the peasants.

Comrades, the Ukrainian countryside has endured unparalleled
sufferings under the yoke of the landowners. The latter have more
than once been able to overthrow the Soviets, the workers' and
peasants' power; more than once they have been helped by the
kulaks, the rich peasants, who either went over openly to their
side or hampered the poor and working peasants' efforts to
introduce the new order, the new way of life, the new organisation
in the villages. Each such attempt to restore the rule of the
landowners has ended in a new victory for the workers and
peasants. Today, all over the Ukraine, the poor villagers have
begun to set up their committees so as to smash the resistance of
the handful of the rich, and finally to establish the rule of the
working people. Wrangel, general of the landowners, is increasing
his pressure with the intention of routing these organisations of
the working people.

Comrades, rise up to a man to hurl Wrangel back. Let all
committees of poor peasants bend every effort to help the Red Army
crush Wrangel. Not a single working peasant should stand aside in
the struggle for the cause of the workers and peasants, or remain
inactive or indifferent. Comrades, remember that this is a matter
of saving the lives of your families, of defending the peasants'
land and their rule.